Former Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price is scheduled to be released Tuesday from a federal prison camp in Leavenworth, Kan., where he has been serving a 40-month sentence for corruption and income tax evasion, sources close to the former mayor said. Price's federal sentence is to end in September, but a 2011 deal Price struck on a separate perjury case made him eligible to serve the final six months in a half-way house while participating in a federal alcohol rehabilitation program, the sources said.

Details on Price's release remain sketchy and attempts to reach his family members and Ralph Whalen, the attorney who represented him in both the corruption case and the perjury incident, were not successful. However, Chris Burke, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, acknowledged that Price is currently assigned to a minimum security work camp at Leavenworth with a release date of Sept. 20, 2013.

Burke said the bureau does not provide detailed information on the release process of inmates, but he said the September release date could incorporate the time Price is to spend in either a half-way house of home incarceration program.

In April of 2011, while serving his time at Leavenworth, Price pleaded guilty to a state perjury charge and was given a four-year sentence that was to run concurrently with the federal sentence. At the time, Whalen said closing the perjury case could actually reduce Price's time at Leavenworth by six months, given the possibility of his participation in the rehabilitation program. While it remains unclear if Price will be part of that program, subtracting six months from the scheduled Sept. 20 release from Leavenworth puts Price's departure from Kansas in late March.

Several local sources said Price's release date is Tuesday, but they declined to offer further details.

Price began serving his time at Leavenworth in October of 2010, more than a year after he resigned the Mandeville mayoralty during his fourth term and pleaded guilty to federal charges that he had accepted gifts from city contractors, used campaign money to pay for personal expenses and failed to file tax returns.

In pleading guilty, Price admitted accepting free golf trips to Pebble Beach from engineer Rick Meyer and developer Don McMath. Lodging bills for those trips exceeded $4,000, while fees for the golf were as high as $7,600, records show.

Price also admitted that he used money from his campaign war chest to cover personal expenses, spending some campaign money to cover his unsuccessful wagers on golf games.

The federal charges punctuated a slew of investigations and scandals that brought unwanted attention to the affluent north shore community and derailed the political career of a well-recognized elected official who was thought to be the frontrunner for the St. Tammany Parish presidency after being elected without opposition in 2007 to his fourth and final term as mayor.

In perhaps his most infamous incident in April of 2008, Price drove his city-owned SUV through a Lake Pontchartrain toll booth gate. When stopped a few miles onto the bridge, Price admitted he had consumed alcohol, but the failure of Causeway police to perform a sobriety test and their failure to issue a ticket until two weeks later fueled the growing controversy. Causeway Police Chief Felix Loicano resigned and three of his officers were fired after it was determined by an outside investigation that Price had received preferential treatment.

Current Mandeville Mayor Donald Villere said because of how Price's tenure as mayor ended, people sometimes forget that he did made significant contributions to the city.

"Eddie has paid the price," Villere said. " I wish he and his family well. We should allow he and his family to get their lives back together and move forward."